The japanese have more fun with their bar codes

dar512 · 11-06-2009, 10:30 AM

http://patriciavalentin.files.wordpr...rcodes-big.jpg

xoxoxoBruce · 11-06-2009, 10:53 AM

I guess that would help with their unemployment problem.

ZenGum · 11-07-2009, 06:44 AM

quite literally, because in Japan "bar code" refers to one of these:

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known in the west a a comb-over.
I believe that three Japanese conglomerates are training older employees to lose their hair in the form of the bar codes for the company's products, to increase efficiency in stock tracking.

TheMercenary · 11-07-2009, 08:25 AM

at zen.

richlevy · 11-07-2009, 08:45 AM

I love the surfer bottom right. The scorpion/zipper at top left is eye catching, but for the life of me I can't figure out what product that would be associated with - extreme crab removal medicine?

Clodfobble · 11-07-2009, 01:32 PM

Below each UPC is the product it came from. The scorpion came from a bottle of Zima. Not that that helps explain its meaning any...

xoxoxoBruce · 11-07-2009, 01:43 PM

I suppose it depends on what a scorpion represents to the japs.
Either Zima releases your inner scorpion, or Zima gets your stinger caught in the zipper?

wolf · 11-07-2009, 01:48 PM

MAD magazine used to put funny comments around the UPC when they first started putting one on their cover.

capnhowdy · 11-07-2009, 03:09 PM

Gotta love Mad magazine and Alfred E. Newman. Now THAT was art.

Shawnee123 · 11-07-2009, 03:16 PM

The first bar code was used in my hometown:

http://inventors.about.com/library/i...blbar_code.htm

I remember this. We had a "new girl" in class whatever year in elementary school, Liz, and she was telling us her dad was a manager at the new Marsh Supermarket, and was telling us about the barcode!

And wolf? The product was Wrigley's gum! We've come full circle!

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xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 36,410	I guess that would help with their unemployment problem. __________________ The Truth and Robert Shapiro Shall Set You Free.

11-07-2009, 06:44 AM	#3
ZenGum Has OCD and ADD; has OCD and hey look at the birdy! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 6,699	quite literally, because in Japan "bar code" refers to one of these: known in the west a a comb-over. I believe that three Japanese conglomerates are training older employees to lose their hair in the form of the bar codes for the company's products, to increase efficiency in stock tracking. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 16,985	at zen. __________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knItRruwXEA

11-07-2009, 08:45 AM	#5
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 5,641	I love the surfer bottom right. The scorpion/zipper at top left is eye catching, but for the life of me I can't figure out what product that would be associated with - extreme crab removal medicine? __________________ Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. -- Barack Hussein Obama Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Clodfobble Overcredulous Awkward Squad Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 10,166	Below each UPC is the product it came from. The scorpion came from a bottle of Zima. Not that that helps explain its meaning any... __________________ My cooking blog

11-07-2009, 01:43 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 36,410	I suppose it depends on what a scorpion represents to the japs. Either Zima releases your inner scorpion, or Zima gets your stinger caught in the zipper? __________________ The Truth and Robert Shapiro Shall Set You Free.

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wolf The other bright meat Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 17,854	MAD magazine used to put funny comments around the UPC when they first started putting one on their cover. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,077	Gotta love Mad magazine and Alfred E. Newman. Now *THAT* was art. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

11-07-2009, 03:16 PM	#10
Shawnee123 Master Thespian Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 19,227	The first bar code was used in my hometown: http://inventors.about.com/library/i...blbar_code.htm I remember this. We had a "new girl" in class whatever year in elementary school, Liz, and she was telling us her dad was a manager at the new Marsh Supermarket, and was telling us about the barcode! And wolf? The product was Wrigley's gum! We've come full circle! __________________ Shawnee comes up with the correct answer almost every time. --The Great and Powerful spudcon the proper course of action is to quote spudcon in your signature line. So we are reminded of your awesomeness every time you post. Not to say that we aren't already. --The Great and Powerful glatt

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